Columbus native helped confirm Einstein’s theory

The universe got a little more beautiful last week when scientists announced that they had confirmed part of Einstein's theory of general relativity, validated the existence of black holes and built a machine that can, for the first time, help people see gravitational waves. It was an announcement that excited even the non-science community. What new things could we discover? What does it say about humanity that we were able to discover this? For Richard O’Shaughnessy, a Columbus native an